I am writing to you today from under the sukkah. About three years ago, I decided I wanted my own sukkah; I wanted to experience the joy of this season. Believe it or not, it really has added to my joy. You see, I love the Christmas holiday. I love the reason for the season […]
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!
When life becomes a whirling merry-go-round spinning out of control, do you want to cry out, “Stop the world, I want to get off!”? This was my mother’s favorite saying. As a child, I could never understand why she said that. After all, life was fun! It was full of adventure – even if I […]
PTSD vs God
Many of you know that I live in sunny south Florida. On most days, it is a beautiful place to live. On others, not so much. The recent scare of Hurricane Matthew bearing down on us caused me to realize that my faith is not as strong as I’d hoped. In the battle of PTSD […]
Let the Holidays Begin!
As you know, our temple family is encouraged to celebrate Shabbat in our homes for four weeks. I am loving it! The first of our celebrations happened this past Shabbat in my home, where 16 of us gathered to feast on a night of Italian cuisine. What else would you expect from a little Sicilian […]
How to Enter God’s Rest
Living in south Florida (where we spend 6 months of the year watching the weather) we have to be in a constant state of preparedness. There are certain items we buy leading up to the month of June that stay in a special place in our homes. We need several days worth of water, food, […]
Entering God’s Rest
The Sabbath is very important to God. He mentions it nearly a hundred times throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. Yeshua said, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father. I and the Father are one.” So, we must ask, if the Sabbath is important to the Father, is it not also important to the Son? Absolutely! […]
Called Out of Fellowship?
Something interesting came up at this month’s Connections meeting. One of the guys mentioned that his friend was called away from fellowship for six months to learn directly from God on how to keep Shabbat. He asked, “What this right, or was this wrong?” Nearly everything we see in Torah – the entire Bible – […]
We Are Overcomers
“There is not a righteous person on earth who does [only] good and does not sin” (Ecclesiastes 7:20) However, [the righteous] subdue their evil inclination a hundred times. If they have succumbed to a sin once, they do not repeat it, to prevent becoming loathsome in their own eyes; and [so] they repent. – Rabbi […]
Urgent Times
This morning I read an article about David Wilkerson’s prophecy of the end times. The urgency presented in the article lines up with the urgency I have in my spirit about the time in which we are living. I know, you’re thinking that Yeshua’s followers have been preaching about the end since he left. Every […]
Utter Failure Can’t Stop A Faithful God
Today is the first day of Elul. It is the start of thirty days of fasting, prayer, and repentance. It is a a season to reflect on the past; to look inward and make reparation in our relationship with God, and with each other. It is a time of preparing for the Day of Judgement (Yom […]